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Logistics Site Selection

Logistics Site Selection

A comprehensive model for logistics site selection, evaluating cost factors and looking at qualitative issues often overlooked in the site selection p...

Logistics Industry Outlook

Logistics Industry Outlook

The logistics industry is omnipresent in the global economy. While most such firms aren’t household names to consumers, they are a vital link in the b...

Virginia: A Top Choice for Bioscience Companies

Virginia: A Top Choice for Bioscience Companies

For nearly 400 years, the Commonwealth of Virginia has long supported business prosperity, dating back to Jamestown, the first permanent English settl...

Quality of Life - Another View

Quality of Life - Another View

Much has been written about the importance of quality of life in economic development programs. A major element in analyzing an area’s strengths, weak...

Site Selection for the Pharmaceutical and Bio Industries

Site Selection for the Pharmaceutical and Bio Industries

This first decade of the 21st century represents an unprecedented opportunity for growth for pharmaceutical companies, the likes of which will ultimat...

Reach the World From Kentucky

Reach the World From Kentucky

In addition to the location and access that makes Kentucky an ideal spot for the logistics industry – or any business – Kentucky is also nurturing the...

Using Your Small Parcel Contract as a Competitive Logistics Weapon

Using Your Small Parcel Contract as a Competitive Logistics Weapon

It is not uncommon that any company might have one carrier for overnight letters, another carrier for B2B time sensitive parcels, and a third company ...

Plastics Industry Outlook

Plastics Industry Outlook

The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more than $310 billion in annual shipments, and the plastics processing sector alo...

Missouri - Achieving Prosperity

Missouri - Achieving Prosperity

The Show-Me State has consistently proved to the world that it is the perfect place for business. Whether it is attracting new business or accommodati...

Foreign Trade Zones: Using Federal Trade Program as a Local Economic Development Tool

Foreign Trade Zones: Using Federal Trade Program as a Local Economic Development Tool

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program has grown profoundly over the last three decades. In 1970 there were 8 General Purpose Zones and 3 special purpos...